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Seeing as how Kenneth Tam was mentioning how crowded the South
Pacific is getting, now's probably the time to point out that
it looks like the population's now one 400-pound Nihon Kaigun
(and only barely piratical) gorilla larger:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lfbraun/takao-lfb-03.jpg
I'd be kind of spooked if I were an escort carrier cavorting
around the Archipelago these days. ;)
...more to come, as Brickfest galleries go up and I can produce
a proper page...
-LFB
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| Lindsay, you were right. Not castle or space. Boats. :-) Amazing job - this is truly one of the greatest creations I've ever seen. Only you could surpass that monster you had there last year. Too bad I didn't get to see this one in person. -Chris (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Good Lord. That's one magnificent ship, LFB! She does a *lot* of credit to her namesake, I think, and the whole Japanese shipbuilding industry. Excellently done with the bow! And the secondary armament... *wow*. How many studs is she? She (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| I forgot to ask for some information on the ship....what is it? The bow has abandoned the reverse sloping bow of WWI era ships, but it still has a has a rear-facing forward turret, which seemed to dissappear on ship design by the start of WWII. So, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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